Bottle collar



Jan. 16, 1945. c, PA I 2,367,371

BOTTLE COLLAR Filed June 13, 1940 Z'Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR.

c. D. PAINTER BOTTLE COLLAR Jan. 16, 1945.

Filed June .15, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR C/aua e Q Pa/fl/er UNITE-D" 6--6 of Figure Figure 7 is a top, or plan view of the converted- Patented Jan. 16, 1945 s PATENT: OFFICE BOTTLE COLLAR I Claude D:.Painter, San Francisco, Calif; Application June' 13, 1940, Serial no; 340,339

, 5 Glai'ms. WTl'risiinvention relates to so-called some col- Figure 13 viewed from the right hand side; and

(C1 Aim-4 Figure 14 is a side view of the collar seen in Figure 15 is a similar view as seen from the lower side.- of Figure. 13."

produce av one-piece bottlecoll'an oreloosef label of" pleasing. appearance; simple and economical Ito manufacture, consisting of. asingle flat sheet of material initsinitiall form, butreadily deformable to produce, a one-piece. collar capable or being placed over a bottle neck or to surround In thepracticeof the invention the blanks are preferably struck, or die cut, from a sheet of suitable material, usually heavy paper, and the required cuts and scores in the blank all made in one operation.

the bodyof' a container andwadaptinglitselfifto various sizes" 'of' bottles and similar" containers, These objects, as well as other advantages which willbecome apparent-in the following I specification, are attained by making inter-related cuts and scores in a shaped sheet" of paper, or blank, to produce loosely connected sections arranged in suchmanner as to permit the Hat blankt'o be rea'dilyialtered, by evertingicertain of its connect'e'd'se'ctiknis to produce a collar prefier'ably having the general form of a'truncated In the blank form of Figure 1' there are two opposite mai-n skirts or flaps loosely connected by two opposite side tabs 21. The skirts 20 are separated by a central cut 22 merging at each end with short divergent cuts 23" which in turn mergec'with perforated lines or scores 24 which converge towards cutout notches or bays 25 at opposite sides? of th blank. This produces a cone adapted to'be placed over the neck of a bottle or to surround the body of a container so as to constitute a loose label'therefor.

A'clear'understanding' of some preferred structural forms embodying the invention will be had from the following detailed description and accompanying drawings, where 7 Figure 1 is a plan view of the prepared collar intermediate step in the conversion;

Figure 6 is a sectional view taken on the line blank constituting it a bottle collar;

:Figure 8 is a side view'of the converted blank,

' collar blank;

Figure 13 is a plan view of a collar formed by alteration, or conversion, of the blank of Figure 12;

blankic'omp'rising relatively movable sections consisting' of skirts 20' and tabs 21 connected. on the converging. lines 2'4 which are preferably scored or cut-scored to facilitate their function ashinges or pivots between saidsectionsJ The convergence of lines 24 is a factor in producing the collars shape. e 7

To convert the blank into acollar, the tabs 21 are held between the thumbs and. fingers and averted or turned completely over with respect to the faces of the skirts 20 shown in Figure 1; The first movement, resulting from turning the tabs through an angle of 45% is illustrated by Figures 3 and 4. Further movement, caused by turning the tabs through is illustrated by Figures band 6. Final, or complete movement,

resulting in formation of the frusto-conical col- 7 lar, is illustrated by Figures 7, 8, and 9. It should be noted, as an important phase of the invention,'that a dozen or more blanks may be converted at One time as easily as one, with the resulting stacked or nested arrangement of the collars seen in Figure 11, from which stack the collars may be picked off one by one.

The term evert, as used in this specification and'in the appended claims, means to turn over a portion of the collar blank so as to bring into face-to-face relation, two surfaces on the same side of the original blank.

In practice, stacks of a dozen or more of the collars are converted at once and a plurality of such stacks of nested collars are nested within each other, each successive stack preferably being rotationally offset about 90 with respect to the underlying nested stack so that the resiliency of the paper tends to form all'of the collars into a more perfect frusto-conical form having an upper opening which will drop freely over abottle neck. The collar is also adapted for machine conversion instead of manual conversion,

ably provided to facilitate eversion or turning over. The opposite ends of the tab 21 are connected to the skirt by the convergent scored lines 30. The principle governing conversion of this form is essentially the same as that already described. Turning over or eversion of tab 21 on the lines 30, causes the opposite ends of skirt 26 to approach each other and assume a conical form and to be there held in position, as illustrated, by the everted tab.

While the invention has been illustrated and described as embodied in a bottle collar or loose label, it will be evident to those skilled in the art of paper forming that with but slight adaptation the invention may be applied to other uses. For instance, the device of Figures 12 to 15 may readily be adapted to use as an eye-shade.

It has been deemed unnecessary to illustrate other possible forms of the invention, the principle of which has been clearly set forth and the scope of which is defined in the following claims.

What is claimed is:

1. An evertible collar blank comprising two skirt portions partially separated by an intermediate out line and connected by a tab at each end of said out line; each of said tabs being defined by diverging cut lines extending from each end of the intermediate out line and by score lines converging from the ends of said' diverging cut lines to spacedpoints at an edge of the blank to form hinge connections between each tab and the adjacent skirt portions.

2. An evertible collar blank. comprising two fined by diverging out lines extending from each end of the intermediate out line and by score lines converging from the ends of said diverging cut lines to spaced points at an edge of the blank to form hinge connections between each tab and the adjacent skirt portions; the angle of convergence of said score lines being such as to cause movement of the outer marginal edges of the skirt portions in the direction of the center of the blank at least equal to the movement of the inner marginal edges of the skirt portions in the opposite direction as eversion of the blank to collar form is efiected.

3. An evertible collar blank comprising two skirt portions partially separated by an intermediate 'cutline and connected by a tab at each end of said out line; each of said tabs being defined by diverging cut lines extending from each end of the intermediate out line and by score lines converging from the ends of said diverging cut lines to spaced points at an edge of the blank to form hinge connections between each tab and the adjacent skirt portions; the angle of con-. vergence of said score lines being such as to bring the outer marginal edges of the skirt portions at least as near a vertical line normal to the plane of the blank at itscenter as the inner marginal edges of said skirt portions are brought to said line upon eversion of the blank to collar form.

4. An e'vertible collarblank comprising one or more skirt portions connected by an equal number of tabs each defined by a separating out from each such skirt portion and by score lines converging from the ends of each such separating out toward spaced points at an edge of the blank; each of said score lines constituting a. hinged connection between a tab and a connected skirt portion.

5. An 'evertible collar blank comprising a single skirt portion and a separated tab portion having opposite ends connected to said skirt portion by score lines converging toward two spaced points at an edge of the blank; said score lines constituting hinged connections betwee the tab and said skirt portion.

' CLAUDE D. PAINTER. 

